Sincerely, Willis Wayde

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1955).

Price: $20.00

Hardcover. First edition. Crown torn and fraying, corners bumped, very good in a spine-faded good only dust jacket with a creased spine, moderate edgewear and a 2" tear with some loss at foot of spine. A sharply satiric portrait of an American businessman set partly in Clyde, Massachusetts.

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Item #245170 Sincerely, Willis Wayde. John P. MARQUAND.

John P. Marquand
birth name: John Phillips Marquand
born: 11/10/1893
died: 7/16/1960
nationality: USA

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Biography

American novelist who recorded the shifting patterns of middle-and upper-class American society in the mid-20th century. (Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature) He also wrote the popular Mr. Moto detective novels, which became a film series starring Peter Lorre.more

Collecting tips:

Marquand is known as a serious author, and his 1937 Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Late George Apply is a serious book, intended by him to prick the Puritan sensibilities of his New England cousins. However, aside from that book, his most avidly collected books are the detective titles featuring Mr. Moto, the resourceful Japanese sleuth/secret agent, who was memorably portrayed by Peter Lorre in eight films. Among the books were No Hero (1935, a Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone), Think Fast, Mr. Moto (1937), Mr. Moto Is So Sorry (1938), Last Laugh, Mr. Moto (1942), and Stopover:Tokyo (1957). All but the last one are very scarce in nice condition.more